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Embodied Transformation Coaching
"Derval helps you join the dots, your values, your talents, your wants and dreams. It’s liberating and equips you with a life skill of checking what feels right for you without guilt kicking in."
One to One Coaching
Building capacity to meet life differently
This is coaching that goes deeper than thinking your way through change.
Real, lasting change rarely comes from insight alone, especially when you've been under pressure or living up in your head for a long time. The body has to be part of it.
My work brings together somatic awareness, nervous system attunement and honest reflection, a grounded, practical way of working that helps change really take hold, rather than slip away the moment life gets difficult.
“I’ve always been self-aware, but working with Derval finally changed how things played out in real life. It felt like the missing piece of the puzzle, the part other coaching hadn’t reached.”
Is This You?
You may have found your way here because:
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You overthink and second-guess yourself, even about small things
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You are capable and self-aware, yet it feels like nothing really changes or sticks
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You feel like an imposter, worried you'll be found out any day now
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Everything looks fine from the outside, but inside you feel lost
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Life feels a bit like autopilot, going through the motions rather than really being in it
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You feel disconnected, unanchored or without a clear sense of direction
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Nothing is obviously broken, everything is technically fine, but something feels missing
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You sense there's more meaning or purpose available, but you don't know how to reach it
Does any of this resonate?
What if what you're looking for is less about fixing, forcing or trying harder, and more about gently reconnecting with yourself, in a way that carries into daily life as more ease, clarity and steadiness?
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Finding your voice again after burnout or a period of change
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Building real, sustainable confidence rather than the performed kind
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Reconnecting with a sense of purpose
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Learning to settle your nervous system and trust your body
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Making decisions that feel aligned rather than forced
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Noticing and trusting your own signals instead of overriding them
Together we work gently with your nervous system, emotions, sensations, beliefs and the habits and patterns you've carried for a long time, to make space for something new. The aim is to reach the steadiness and clarity that's already in you, often buried under stress, doubt or overwhelm, so you can work toward what matters to you from your own ground, rather than everyone else's expectations.
What People Experience
“I stopped overthinking and started trusting myself.”
People I work with often say they:
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Feel calmer and more grounded in daily life
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React less quickly and feel they have more choice in how they respond
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Trust themselves more
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Communicate more clearly, at work and at home
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Feel more aligned, and more like themselves again
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Make changes that come with more ease, and actually last
Not because life suddenly becomes easier, but because they're more resourced to meet it.
What the work is like and what changes
We slow things down. We work with your thoughts, but also pay attention to what the body is telling you and what's going on beneath the surface. It's not about fixing or forcing. It's about meeting yourself in a different way.
The work draws on simple, practical tools: ways to help your nervous system settle, attention to the body, and space for your own clarity to surface.
Over time, you start to trust your own judgement more, quieten the inner critic and move forward in a way that feels natural and true.
If you have tried to make changes before, read the books, done the courses, pushed yourself and it hasn't quite stuck, you are not alone and you have come to the right place.
This work tends to suit people who:
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are open to trying something different, something deeper
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are ready to move on from coping, overwhelm and going through the motions
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want to turn down the volume of the outside world long enough to hear and trust their own wants, values and direction
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are ready for real, aligned change
Why This Is Different
This isn't about talking things through endlessly, or pushing yourself to "be better." My work is grounded in embodied transformation coaching, which means we work with the whole of you: your nervous system, your body's signals, and your capacity to slow down, notice, and respond differently.
When you've been living under pressure, or up in your head for a long time, insight alone rarely creates lasting change. The body has to be part of it. As your system settles, change begins to happen more naturally, and it holds, not through force, but through reconnection.
"My sessions were transformational & Derval was so skilled & adept in taking me on that journey"
The Drop In
Alongside one to one work, I run The Drop In, a six week online series for women in midlife who've spent so long holding everything together for everyone else that they've quietly lost touch with themselves. A steady hour a week, in a small group, to slow down, come back into the body, and hear yourself again.